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5 Ways to Challenge the Forgetting Curve

LearnUpon

How often have you taken an online course and remembered every single piece of information you consumed immediately afterward? Probably never! That’s down to the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve. Ebbinghaus’ forgetting curve depicts how quickly we forget information over time if we make no attempt to retain it. For L&D professionals, this presents an obvious challenge.

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Essential Elements ?f Interactive Learning

eLearning Industry

Educators and trainers across the globe are dealing with constantly dropping learner attention spans. This article focuses on interactivity as one of the best approaches to address this challenge and lists down some of the most essential elements of interactive learning. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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What is Rapid Learning (or Rapid eLearning Development)?

Webanywhere

Are your content development costs far higher than you expected? Have you considered ways to reuse and standardise to minimise those costs? Rapid development is changing the landscape of eLearning. Where once you were required to create from scratch, standard templates enable you to build quickly and effectively. With L&D costs under the microscope like never before, it’s essential that you include rapid development in your training environment.

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Online VS Classroom Learning: What The Experts Say

Accessplanit

A ccording to LinkedIn's 2018 Workplace Learning Report , e xecutives responsible for developing talent depend more on online learning solutions than ever before, especially as the #1 reason for learners not advancing their skills is the time constraint associated with classroom learning. However, the benefits of instructor-led training (ILT) are still incredibly valid.

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Experience the Benefit of Fully Trainable AI-Powered Learning Companions

As a training manager looking to amplify your team's results, Knowledge Avatars are the next level. Beyond mere chatbots, Knowledge Avatars are companions, interactive tutors ready to educate the urgent information your team needs to excel in their roles. Knowledge Avatars are versatile and adaptable personal coaches! They can be customized with your company's knowledge via a simple upload of your data.

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Citations

Clark Quinn

Following on my thoughts on writing yesterday, this was a topic that didn’t fit (the post got too long ;). So here we go. Colleagues have written that citations are important. If you’re making a claim, you should be able to back it up. On the other hand, if you’re citing what you think is ‘received wisdom’, do you need to bother?

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Why You Should Implement Blended Learning on Mobile

LearnDash

Mobile blended learning bridges the classroom-digital divide. Have you ever been in the middle of delivering a lecture and found yourself wishing you had a better way to reach your learners once the allotted class time finished? Or have you ever designed an online course and found yourself longing for face-to-face time with your learners that might help you bring your more complex concepts to life?

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The Secret to Creating Training That Sticks

InSync Training

Virtually There Session Recap. As trainers, we often have to design and deliver technical or hard-to-understand content to our learners. Oftentimes, the content itself doesn’t naturally draw people in or lend itself to being easily remembered. By leveraging new edtech , innovative instructional design techniques, and engaging facilitation, we make an honest effort to engage learners and improve organizational performance.

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Editing, process, topics, and other reflections

Clark Quinn

My lass let me know there was a typo in my recent post on Transformation. I’m thrilled that she’s reading them (!), but she triggered many thoughts about my writing approach. I thought I’d share how I deal with blogging, articles, and writing in general, as a ‘ show your work ‘ effort. And, in a sense, solicit your thoughts on approach, editing, and topics (amongst other things).

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Behind The Scenes Design Tips, Part 3: Interactivity And The Learning Paradox

eLearning Industry

What’s better than learning about anything? Learning anything! The "behind the scenes design tips" series explores actionable design tips you can try next time on a project. Don't just learn about things, learn things! By doing things! This last episode is about interactivity. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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4 Ways Integrating Your LMS Will Improve Your Business

Absorb LMS

A learning management system (LMS) makes it easy to consolidate your training and learning materials into one place. And while that’s great and all, what happens if you need them in more than one place? Well, first let’s recognize that there’s a pretty big difference between consolidation and isolation. Just as no man is an island, no software should be either.

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How to Master Mobile Gamification

LearnDash

Gamification on mobile can create a learning experience that’s hard to put down. Looking for a way to reduce drop-out rates, raise engagement, and turn your course into a program your learners don’t want to stop using? Don’t we all. It may sound like a pipe dream, but the key to creating just such an experience lies in an instructional design technique that has caught on in e-learning circles in a big way: gamification.

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Can Gamification "Funify" Work?

InSync Training

Picture it: someone at a networking event asks you to describe your job. What words come to mind? If you answered “fun!” first, count yourself among the lucky few. Most of us take our professional responsibilities seriously and seek out opportunities that challenge us. However, pursuing our serious dreams often results in roles that fundamentally lack fun.

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How To Design An Effective eLearning Course (Part 2/2)

eLearning Industry

It's high time we discussed the remaining 3 (out of the main 5) components of designing an effective course. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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Tuning Your Learning Activities to The Expectations of Tomorrow’s Gen-Z Workforce

Docebo

Millennials made the need for learning technology clear – Gen-Z will push you to perfect how it’s used to retain and engage new workers. A few months ago, we discussed the idea that in less than two years, your entire learning program could be obsolete. But it won’t be because the learning technology used to power existing L&D strategies will fail to adapt (actually, advances in learning technology will make sure this doesn’t happen).

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4 Ways Businesses Can Improve Online Retail Training

TOPYX LMS

A recent study¹ found that less than half of retail employees receive formal training, while 32 percent of retail employees don’t receive any formal training at all.

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CONTENT CURATION:  Are We After Knowledge, Wisdom or Insights?

Living in Learning

Given the exponential growth of information sources and powerful search capabilities like Google at our disposal, a bulk-curated information tsunami is inbound…if not already on the beach. We’ve effectively curated ourselves into a well-intended, curated, bulk information volume issue.

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MWL Newsletter No 92

Jane Hart

Articles and news about Modern Workplace Learning (MWL) for the week 18-24 November 2018. [L&D don’t “own” learning, learning as a daily habit, spotlighting the MWL track at LearnTec 2019 & more}.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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ADVENTURES IN TEACHING: Getting Hooked as a Live, Online Trainer

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Jennie Ruby, CTT, COTP. As I write this, I am sitting at home looking out at a storm that has paralyzed commerce up and down the East Coast. I’m making no money. That is because an in-person class I had scheduled for today had to be cancelled. It was postponed until next year. Had I been scheduled for an online course, I would be working, and getting paid, today.   I’ve been in the training industry for more than 20 years, and at this point I am making most of my income by teaching onli

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Ten Advantages of Mobile Learning

Origin Learning

What do you use your smartphone for? Other than making phone calls, of course. Smartphones have become devices that entertain us. Be it streaming movies on Amazon Prime Video and Netflix, clicking photographs, or playing addictive video games, the smartphone has evolved from just an instrument used to make calls and send and receive messages. Smartphones have taken over and literally dictate our lives.

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4 Ways Virtual Reality Training (VR) Changes L&D

eLearning Industry

Virtual Reality training (VR) has been shaping how we learn and how we design so that others can learn, for decades. And the future looks even more virtual. Find out how Virtual Reality will continue to transform the L&D field. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Spotlighting the “L&D in the modern workplace” session in the MWL track at LearnTec 2019

Jane Hart

In the afternoon of Thursday 31 January, the final session will be focused on L&D in the modern workplace and I very pleased that we have two great speakers in that session plus an open fishbowl discussion.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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4 Tips On Making Your Microlearning Strategy A Success

Tesseract Learning

With Millennials increasing in the corporate environs we need to keep our microlearning engaging. Here are four tips on how you can create a successful microlearning strategy.

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Beyond Training: How Nektar Juice Bar is proving the ROI of their training

Wisetail

The post Beyond Training: How Nektar Juice Bar is proving the ROI of their training appeared first on Wisetail LMS.

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Do Your eLearning Courses Follow Adult Learning Principles? A Checklist

CommLab India

While introducing e-learning in your workplace, it is necessary to base them on a good understanding of adult learning principles. This will help you create powerful and truly learner-centric e-learning courses.

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Spotlighting the “How to work with managers to enable learning in the daily work” session in the MWL track at LearnTec 2019

Jane Hart

Research tells us we spend much more time learning as part the daily flow of work than in formal learning (the ‘70’ and ‘20’ in 70:20:10). Good managers support their people to exploit this daily workplace learning. However, many managers need help to do this. Charles Jennings will run an interactive session in two parts.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Unlock the full potential of your educational initiatives with the 11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption eBook. You’ll uncover: Why measure content consumption rather than (or in addition to) completion rates and member satisfaction? What are some proven tactics to create quality learner content and raise your content consumption rates? Discover the secrets from leading experts in the field, distilled into practical tips that promise to elevate the quality of your educational offerings,

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Learning In The Flow Of Work: Arriving Now

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

Several months ago I started writing about Learning in The Flow Of Work , an idea based on many trends in the workforce today. (video details below.) Well, I want to give you an update: a lot of progress is happening. On the technology side, almost every learning vendor is now adding tools to. Read more» The post Learning In The Flow Of Work: Arriving Now appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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5 Microlearning Myths You Need To Stop Believing

eLearning Industry

This article talks about the five common myths surrounding microlearning and dispels them, enabling organizations to use this bite-sized learning technique where it’s most appropriate. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Adapt a Mobile eLearning App to your training programs and increase the engagement of your students

Paradiso

The rise of technology facilitates more and more the daily processes for humans. In the educational field, Mobile eLearning has revolutionized the way people learn online. Most of the tasks and occupations of people’s daily don’t leave enough space for training or to acquire new knowledge. That’s why, with the arrival of the new generation of smartphones, acquiring new skills online through a mobile device is a reality.